Back in 1989, vice president Dan Quayle, whom nobody ever referred to as an innovative brainiac with the guts to make the tough choices, said this at a fundraising dinner for the United Negro College Fund.

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste.... You take the UNCF
model that what a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind
is being very wasteful. How true that is."

On Wednesday, in Ohio, Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from space, in the middle of a rote answer to a woman who was talking about being on welfare, an answer that was just inches from actually being human, said this:

"Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Don't feed fish."